Comprehension: At the Entrance to the Stadium

A few minutes before the football encounter between Enyimba Football Club and the Yankari Football Club was going to begin, all the gates to the Jokolo Stadium were shut. The stadium had already been jampacked but many people were still outside the stadium. These people could not get in because they had no tickets. Just then a small boy began to push his way between the legs of the crowd. He was almost trampled upon by the crowd as many people were suffocated. At last, the boy managed to reach the gate, put his hand in his pocket, and pulled out a ticket. He asked the gateman to open the gate. The man first looked at him and asked, “Where is your ticket, you think you can use your stature to enter without a ticket?” The boy then showed him his ticket. The gateman looked at the ticket to make sure that it was not fake. “It is genuine, my father bought it for me long ago”, the boy cried at the top of his voice.